Flair and Bliss retain WWE Women's Tag Team Championship on RAW

Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss retained the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship Monday night, defeating Bayley and Lyra Valkyria in the main event of Monday Night RAW at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California. The champions completed a hard-fought defense in front of the live audience and left the ring with the titles following a sequence of finishing maneuvers that ended the bout.

The match opened with Flair and Valkyria exchanging early offense while Bliss entered later to isolate the challengers. Notable moments included Flair landing a moonsault for a near fall, Bayley hitting a Bayley to Belly on Flair, and Valkyria connecting with her Nightwing driver on Bliss only to have Flair break the cover. In the closing stretch Flair applied the Figure Eight leglock on Bayley while Valkyria prevented the tap, and Bliss countered later with Twisted Bliss. The champions then simultaneously landed Natural Selection on their opponents, and Flair made the cover for the clean pin, allowing Bliss and Flair to retain.

The title defense marked at least the fifth defense for Flair and Bliss since they won the belts at SummerSlam in August. The pairing has traveled across WWE programming to...